British Culture
Episode of the series Great Stuff
The episode
A whistle-stop tour of the people who make Britain — from Shakespeare's roughly 37 plays, the Globe Theatre and the 1,700+ words he invented ('gossip', 'champion'), to J.
Episode worksheets (2)
- Student sheet In your teacher account
- Teacher sheet In your teacher account
Teaching guide
Objective & content
Two friends tour British culture through five well-known names: Shakespeare and his invented words, J.K. Rowling and the first Harry Potter book written in Edinburgh, the Beatles and their 18 UK number-one singles, David Bowie and his character Ziggy Stardust, and the street artist Banksy, whose painting shredded itself at an auction in 2018. The main grammar point is the past simple, regular and irregular, used to tell what each person did; present simple questions with wh-words also appear. Vocabulary comes from famous people, music and art. Learners listen for numbers, dates and names, then answer the in-app questions. One line to notice: "You can just... invent words?"
Materials & prerequisites
- Student sheet and teacher sheet (HTML and PDF, in the printables folder).
- Prerequisites: present simple, wh-question words, numbers and years, and a first idea of regular and irregular past forms.
Curriculum alignment
Tagged with the axis "child and wider environment" (c3-child-and-wider-environment), cycle 3 (6e). The episode targets CEFR A2-.
Possible adaptations
- Lower levels: Offer segmented listening and additional visual aids.
- Advanced levels: Encourage an oral summary and a debate in English on the theme.
- Large groups: Organise group work with differentiated roles.
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